Smushpants

Fair warning, I am feeling smushy!  My poor little Scarlett has her first ever stomach bug AND a fever; it makes me so sad.  She has been vomiting all day and all last night (changing the sheets twice at 1 and 2am is not fun!) and has been super-clingy (which I kind of love!).  Well, after she was sick all over everything this afternoon, I plopped her into a warm bath and dressed her in comfy clothes.  Since she had already had a bath and hadn't been sick again, I decided to skip bath time this evening.  Now I was a different story; we had clean sheets, so it was a must that I have a shower before slipping into bed!  Well, Scarlett was so sick and I wanted to make her the most comfortable, so I stripped her down and let her air her biscuits while I showered.  As I rinsed off, Scarlett started to cry and seemed really uncomfortable, so I scooped her up and brought her into the shower with me.  We just snuggled and let the water run over us.  She played with the water on my arm and rested her cheek on my shoulder.  The whole time, I was telling mself to just remember this moment because pretty soon she'll be running off to Colby college.  It makes me so sad to think about that Scarlett is getting older, but I do love how much more fun and inquisitive she becomes!  So I'm feeling smushy because I just am loving how lovey Scarlett has been and I feel so worried when she's sick. 

On a side note, I baked oatmeal chocolate chip cookies today.  Wicked fail!  I have no idea why the recipe didn't call for flour, but it made the cookes too chewy/burned when I forgot to take them out of the oven.  Hate it when that happens!

I'm hoping that tomorrow brings healthy babies, a fun aerobics class, strong coffee, and lots of cleaning to get ready for Mary & Louisa!!!! 



My favorite (almost!) 3-year-old with little Scarjo  <3



Raining Day Fun

Baking with my {almost} three year old niece, Alyssa, is lots of extra work, but well worth it.  The reason it's so much more is because Alyssa demands wants to be the one to pour all of the ingredients into the bowl AND it's more work because Scarjo is left unentertained.  Not cool.  Soooo, that just means that Scarlett is all up in my business and needs to be given a job if our baking creations are ever going to make it into the oven.  So that's just what I did:

Clearly, she takes her work seriously!

I gave Scarlett the important job of playing with chocolate chips in the measuring cup.  She thoroughly enjoyed it!  And while Scarjo snacked on chocolate chips, Alyssa "unwrapped" the butter...

Yummy!

Don't worry, Alyssa germs never hurt anyone!  I needed to add a little bit extra butter due to the chunks missing off of her stick.  It was more work, but definitely worth it in the end; oreo stuffed chocolate chip cookies are heavenly!  We used this recipe and the end result may not have been as pretty, but they sure were delish!

I gave each girl a wand with a little cookie dough left on--they were happy!

My finished product!

The oreo middle!

Chocolate everywhere!

These look amazing; I'll have to attempt them next...!

(And, yes, we had to run around the house a few times to work off all of that sugar!)